Timeline for Is my adviser supposed to be assigning me my research?
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| Aug 4, 2014 at 4:09 | comment | added | Namey | I am also confused by aesimail's comment. In most experimental fields, you make a hypothesis before you do the research, which is exactly that: proposing what you think will happen. Then you see if it did happen and report it. Often, the ones that don't match what you expected are the most interesting. | |
| Aug 3, 2014 at 2:43 | comment | added | Oswald Veblen | @aeismail: won't that depend on the field? In math, if everyone expects a certain result to hold, but I am the first to prove it, that still counts as research. For example, everyone expects the "Riemann Hypothesis" to be true, but nobody can prove it, and if someone proves it they will be famous. | |
| Aug 2, 2014 at 22:39 | comment | added | Kristof Tak | @aeismail maybe I've done a poor choice of words there, but by saying that sentence I did not allude to knowing beforehand the final result of the research, but rather considering the possible outcome(s). | |
| Aug 2, 2014 at 21:47 | comment | added | enthu | @aeismail I can not understand. Specially in MSc thesis, students/professors do not expect a new theorem to be reached. They work on one application of a theorem and try to solve a problem. They know what they want to solve and they almost know where they are going. For instance, if we are solving a differential equation, we know the problem and we know the solution should be a function, but the process to find that solution is unknown... I think research is not defined by where researcher is going. It is the process that researcher works on to connect a problem to its solution. | |
| Aug 2, 2014 at 19:46 | comment | added | aeismail | "[T]he expected outcome of your research should be defined even before the research starts": if you know what the expected outcome should be, it's not research! | |
| Aug 1, 2014 at 20:54 | history | answered | Kristof Tak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |